Using Animations in Vizualizations

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video I want to talk about animations, and
• 00:07 adding animations to visualizations.
• 00:09 So really quickly, let's create a quick visualization, and
• 00:13 I'm going to go breed, let's grab our count, and let's also grab the validate,
• 00:19 so that we can look at this over time, and I'm going to break this down by month.
• 00:25 So let's get rid of these.
• 00:28 And now, let's grab this and create a little filter, and
• 00:31 I just want all of the dogs, so I'm just going to leave all of them.
• 00:36 But then, the reason why I'm creating a filter, is so
• 00:39 that I can show the filter over here.
• 00:41 And now we have got a list of all of them.
• 00:43 And let's change this to bullets instead of checks.
• 00:48 So we could just check one at a time.
• 00:50 Now, I could cycle through here, and look at each one of these.
• 00:53 So, this would be great for a presentation or something, but
• 00:56 you'd notice as I click on these, just boom changes to the next one.
• 01:01 It's kind of abrupt, right?
• 01:02 It's not that cool.
• 01:04 We can add an animation to that,
• 01:06 where it will just sort of meld in animatedly, I guess, using animations.
• 01:11 So to do that, we come up here to format and animations.
• 01:15 Now, animations is set to off by default in tableau, which is kind of weird.
• 01:18 So, we can turn it on right here, and this will do it for everything in our workbook,
• 01:22 and we've only got a couple of worksheets in our workbook, so
• 01:25 this really doesn't matter.
• 01:27 But if you only want this turned on for a specific worksheet, you can come down here
• 01:31 to this bottom section, and you can just select the selected worksheet.
• 01:35 We're in dog breeds, if we went to dog colors, you can see now it's selected as
• 01:38 dog colors, but we want to just enable animations for
• 01:41 the entire workbook, because we don't really care.
• 01:43 So we'll just click on and then boom now it's on, now you can set the duration
• 01:48 point three seconds, point five seconds, one second, two second or custom.
• 01:52 You can change the style sequential or simultaneous, and
• 01:55 we'll look at all of those.
• 01:57 So what is this done now?
• 01:58 Well, we can come up here and click around, and
• 02:02 you can see boom, it sort of makes a little animation.
• 02:06 It's sort of glides into the next one, instead of just boom showing up.
• 02:12 And again, we can play around with this.
• 02:13 We can do point five seconds, so see it does a little slower,
• 02:17 as I'm clicking through here, right?
• 02:20 We can do it really long, one second.
• 02:23 So you can click this and then it kind of does its thing.
• 02:27 Right? In depending on your data and
• 02:29 the type of charts that you have,
• 02:31 this may be more interesting to see this happen faster or slower.
• 02:35 It really starting to depend on whatever you're trying to show.
• 02:40 So, okay, that's really slow.
• 02:43 All right.
• 02:45 And let's see we can do sequential, Which is, well, too slow.
• 02:53 Let's back to spec down two point three seconds.
• 02:57 You can see now, it goes completely away, and
• 03:00 then once it's completely away, then the next one comes, right?
• 03:05 So that's sequential simultaneous does it sort of both at the same time,
• 03:10 they sort of morph into each other, which is I think neater.
• 03:14 But whatever fits your particular set of data and charts and things, that's fine.
• 03:20 We're using a line graph here, we can do this for
• 03:23 just about anything if we want to, for instance, let's bring our breed up here.
• 03:28 Let's move these around, that look better up there,
• 03:33 let's do it like this, again, you can see that's kind of cool, right?
• 03:41 If we change this to two seconds, we can really get the effect.
• 03:46 Right?
• 03:47 And a lot of fun.
• 03:48 We could change it back to sequential.
• 03:50 This one will completely disappear when it's gone,
• 03:53 then the new one will slowly come in, there we go.
• 03:57 Got it set to two seconds.
• 03:58 Let's back this down to point five seconds.
• 04:01 That goes, boom, comes back.
• 04:04 Let it goes, but it comes back.
• 04:07 So, like I said, I like the simultaneous better.
• 04:09 I think it's sort of, but whatever you like,
• 04:12 that's how you add animations to your visualizations.
• 04:16 Just remember to come up here to format, click on animations,
• 04:19 be sure to turn it on, because by default, it's off.
• 04:22 And once you've made your change, you can close this out and
• 04:25 it will still continue to work.
• 04:27 And that's pretty cool.
• 04:31 So, that's all for this video.
• 04:32 In the next video, we'll look at duplicating worksheets.

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